$ZZ\gamma$ production in the NLO QCD+EW accuracy at the LHC

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In this paper we present the first study of the impact of the $\mathcal{O}(\alpha)$ EW correction to the $pp \to ZZ \gamma+X$ process at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

• The subsequent $Z$-boson leptonic decays are considered at the leading order using the MadSpin method, which takes into account the spin-correlation and off-shell effects from the $Z$-boson decays.
• We provide numerical results of the integrated cross section and the kinematic distributions for this process.
• In coping with final-state photon-jet separation in the QCD real emission and photon-induced processes, we adopt both the Frixione isolated-photon plus jets algorithm and the phenomenological quark-to-photon fragmentation function method for comparison.